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Exam question 4 · Olympiad: riddles, lipograms and hidden words

It is given that a speaker has no siblings and states that "this man's father is my father's son". Determine the identity of the man depicted.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: speaker, father, you, man · What happens: give, have, be, determine, depict · To what, where: It, siblings, son, identity

This is exam question 4 of lesson 57 «Olympiad: riddles, lipograms and hidden words» of the English course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

Sentence 1: It is given that a speaker has no siblings and states that "this man's father is my father's son".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 given	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 given	aux:pass
3	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 has	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 speaker	det
6	speaker	speaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 has	nsubj
7	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 given	advcl
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 siblings	det
9	siblings	sibling	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 has	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 states	cc
11	states	state	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 siblings	conj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 son	mark
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 son	punct
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 man	det
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 father	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 man	case
17	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 son	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 son	cop
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 father	nmod:poss
20	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 son	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 father	case
22	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 siblings	nmod
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 son	punct
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 given	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present · passive		It					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	have	present	a speaker	no siblings and states					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sibling=Patient
3	is a in a quote	present	this man's father	my father's son					tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Sentence 2: Determine the identity of the man depicted.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 identity	det
3	identity	identity	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Determine	obj
4	of	of	SCONJ	_	7 depicted	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 depicted	nsubj
7	depicted	depict	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 identity	acl:relcl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here	the identity					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent identity=Topic
2	depict	past	the man	the identity not said here					vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent identity=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The speaker himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 speaker	det
2	speaker	speaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	2 speaker	nmod:unmarked

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

The speaker's father

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 speaker	det
2	speaker	speaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 father	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 speaker	case
4	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The speaker's son

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 speaker	det
2	speaker	speaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 son	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 speaker	case
4	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

The speaker's brother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 speaker	det
2	speaker	speaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 brother	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 speaker	case
4	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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